From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 11 12:31:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5677D15251 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:31:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA65255; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 15:30:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <199912112030.PAA65255@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <18799.944942734@monkeys.com> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 15:30:50 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Subject: Re: Contribution Cc: Martin Hinner , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Dec-99 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <3852771D.8C8BFA3C@newsguy.com>, > Martin Hinner wrote: > >>Anyway, frankly, I don't think this document would be relevant to >>FreeBSD. Perhaps I'm missing something... what would be the purpose >>of having it? > > My two cents: > > I happen to think that the HOWTO- system of Linux is marvelous. If you > want detailed information on one specific topic, e.g. filesystems, or > parallel ports, or RAID, or some such thing, you just go and read the > relevant HOWTO- file. > > A lot of the information in these HOWTO- files would NOT be appropriate > to put into man pages... it's far too chatty. But it is still very very > useful information and it's Good to have it exist (in writing) _somewhere_. > > Seems to me that the closest thing that FreeBSD has to the Linux HOWTO- > files is the FreeBSD Handbook, but that's not as good, precisely because > it _is_ one unified document with (I assume) a single maintainer. It > seems to be better to distribute the psychological sense of ownership > across many many individuals. That's what happens in the case of the > Linux HOWTO- files. No, the Handbook has many maintainers, and they all read the -doc list, which is where you probably should be posting documentation questions: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message